Dirty Dancing

As Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze) said, “Nobody puts Baby in the corner” — and nobody can create a list of the top sound tracks without taking Dirty Dancing into account. Though the film is set at a Catskills resort in the early 1960s, its score is a seemingly random mix of hits from the ’50s, ’60s and ’80s that somehow just works. The original sound track spent 94 weeks on the Billboard 200; in 2007 RCA re-released a 20th anniversary album with additional tracks. From Swayze’s ballad “She’s Like the Wind” to the Oscar-winning climactic number “(I’ve Had) the Time of My Life,” it was the music — rather than the provocative dancing — that made the film a classic.